Becoming deliberately less bulky in middle age.
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Cycling body type is incredibly specific and actually pretty unattractive. My wife calls them T. rex arms.
Need to mix cycling up with weights and something like Pilates. I think bodies look best when there’s a struggle between endurance training and resistance training getting the upper hand.
Need to mix cycling up with weights and something like Pilates. I think bodies look best when there’s a struggle between endurance training and resistance training getting the upper hand.
jontysafe said:
Cycling body type is incredibly specific and actually pretty unattractive. My wife calls them T. rex arms.
Need to mix cycling up with weights and something like Pilates. I think bodies look best when there’s a struggle between endurance training and resistance training getting the upper hand.
Crossfit, for example.Need to mix cycling up with weights and something like Pilates. I think bodies look best when there’s a struggle between endurance training and resistance training getting the upper hand.
To be fair, though, they are juiced to the gills so maybe not reflective of what can be maintained.
ORD said:
jontysafe said:
Cycling body type is incredibly specific and actually pretty unattractive. My wife calls them T. rex arms.
Need to mix cycling up with weights and something like Pilates. I think bodies look best when there’s a struggle between endurance training and resistance training getting the upper hand.
Crossfit, for example.Need to mix cycling up with weights and something like Pilates. I think bodies look best when there’s a struggle between endurance training and resistance training getting the upper hand.
To be fair, though, they are juiced to the gills so maybe not reflective of what can be maintained.
gregs656 said:
Rowing, swimming and gymnastics also. I guess track cycling too.
I don't think many people would hold up distance runners or sprinters as the pinnacle of the athletic body.
Swimming perhaps. Rowing and cycling can make for some odd body shapes, unless combined with other things.I don't think many people would hold up distance runners or sprinters as the pinnacle of the athletic body.
anonymous said:
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I met Andy Schleck the other day. What a really nice guy he is. He has a bike store in Itzig, a small village in Luxembourg. It's very popular because of who he is. You have to queue up to get in!Anyway, he's tall and very skinny, still, and generally not representative of most people on this planet... Since we're not pro cyclists!
gregs656 said:
I don't think many people would hold up distance runners or sprinters as the pinnacle of the athletic body.
Who mentioned distance runners? If we're still on the topic of endurance/power then sprinters/sprint cyclists are the pinnacle surely? But then there's the T Rex arms... .popeyewhite said:
gregs656 said:
I don't think many people would hold up distance runners or sprinters as the pinnacle of the athletic body.
Who mentioned distance runners? If we're still on the topic of endurance/power then sprinters/sprint cyclists are the pinnacle surely? But then there's the T Rex arms... .I'd have thought boxing was the obvious choice.
Reduce sugar, reduce red meat, reduce dairy, eeduce bread. Less cake, less crisps, lessbfat. Replace with beans, pulses, nutz, fruit and rice and fish.
3 meals no snacks.
Do more exercise.
4 years ago I was 16.5 stone.
A year ago I was 15 stone
Now 12.5 stone.
54 years old.
OP : if you want it, you can do it.
3 meals no snacks.
Do more exercise.
4 years ago I was 16.5 stone.
A year ago I was 15 stone
Now 12.5 stone.
54 years old.
OP : if you want it, you can do it.
Prof Prolapse said:
I mean, rather than descend into semantics, is the obvious conclusion from the last two pages, that your body gets better at performing in whatever you train your body to do?
Yes that’s correct. You become more efficient. Which is why people who do long steady cardio stop getting gains or have to do more. The other thing about long steady cardio, particularly if you’re a lean practiced runner, is that a good amount of propulsion comes from “spring” elastic return in joints.Cardio is frikking awesome. But if you’re in middle age and wanting to be lean, functional and healthy, it’s a reasonable way down the hierarchy of things you need to be doing first. (Be wary that many lean people run because they’re lean, not the other way around!)
BurtonLazars said:
Yes that’s correct. You become more efficient. Which is why people who do long steady cardio stop getting gains or have to do more.
You can plateau at any exercise, the trick is to keep the body challenged. A lot of runners train endurance for the recovery and endurance benefits and concentrate on their other runs (short/fast/hills/fartlek etc) for their main improvements.popeyewhite said:
You can plateau at any exercise, the trick is to keep the body challenged. A lot of runners train endurance for the recovery and endurance benefits and concentrate on their other runs (short/fast/hills/fartlek etc) for their main improvements.
Yes, but you’re taking about improving running performance whereas this thread is about staying lean in middle age.BurtonLazars said:
Yes, but you’re taking about improving running performance whereas this thread is about staying lean in middle age.
And you're talking about running performance not improvingBurtonLazars said:
Yes that’s correct. You become more efficient. Which is why people who do long steady cardio stop getting gains or have to do more.
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